What are the Halloween costume rules in your school?

This story, featured on The New York Times homepage today, discusses restrictions that schools are putting on what costumes kids can wear to school Halloween festivities.

According to the article:

Guns, daggers and other toy weapons have long been excisedfrom costumes at many school celebrations on Halloween. But in some classrooms across the country, the interpretation of what is too scary — or offensive, gross or saddening — is now also leading to an abundance of caution and some prohibitions.

In a school district in Illinois, students are being encouraged to dress up as historical characters or delicious food items rather than vampires or zombies. In Texas, a school has issued suggestions for “positive costumes” for the annual Halloween dance. At Riverside Drive, a Los Angeles public school in the San Fernando Valley, the Halloween parade is being defanged right down to its jagged fingertips.

Are there costume restrictions at your child’s school?

Personally, I don’t have a problem with kids dressing as witches, zombies, ghosts, etc. I’m a little more hesitant when it comes to little Jimmy or Suzie dressing up as an ax-murderer, which is a little too close to life for me.